Console Arcades

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Hey guys im looking to build a xbox360 arcade machine for street fighters and yada yada in a dynamo cab. i need some ideas and was wondering if anyone can post up their console arcades. Doesn't matter what you have from nes to ps3 i just need some ideas. any info or issues i should be aware of?? lets see them

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no one??

[DillonFoulds]

It's just like any other cab, but instead of controller interfaces, you gut controllers, and instead of PCs you do consoles. Nothing special to see, so long as you can interface your console with your monitor correctly.

[SavannahLion]

Relax. It's usually easier to answer specific questions than it is to present an entire build to you in a single posting.

Did you do some research on the subject?

A console in a cab is pretty basic and many of the earliest home built cabs were built around consoles. That cab may look like crap by todays standards, but remember, that kid built it in 1987 when he was 13. If I had that kind of gumps building a cab at 13, I can guarantee I would be a hell of lot farther than where I am today.

DillonFoulds beat me to the answer. It's like he says, a console cab boils down to nothing more than a really fancy entertainment center. The connections for the TV, power, console, etc are all the same. The only "custom work" that needs to be done is hacking the controller to work with standard arcade controllers or buying one of those adapters. You already know you want a 360, so look at the controller hacks in our console forum.

[amendonz]

heres a link i'm a little to reluctant to share since i haven't got round to ordering one  , but if you're using original 15khz monitor this might help (also assuming its jamma)

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=28069&hilit=console+jamma+scart

just had a recent update too.

just need xbox advanced scart cable and a couple hacked pads with arcade controls and you're almost there
 

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For controls, I would go with PS360 PCBs. This works with XBox 360, PS3 and PC/Mac and is super-easy to install. If you want to build a cabinet just for console games, just wire this up directly to your control panel. If you're converting a JAMMA cabinet, just solder wires to a JAMMA fingerboard and hook the wires up to the PS360s.

If you're using a 15kHz monitor, you can use either the viletim RGB Scart -> JAMMA adapter (link in a previous reply). This will give you video and sound that looks very nice. If you have a high res monitor CRT or an LCD, just get a VGA cable for you console. If you have a dual-sync monitor, you can get an Ultracade Universal Video Converter and run the consoles in 24kHz (640x384) and it will look fantastic as well.

I have a 360 running in one of my EGRET II JAMMA dual-sync cabinets, check my site for pictures and more info.

[gnateye]

since no one posted pics, here's my dreamcast cab.

http://cosmicbreaks.com/arcade/

it's exactly like everyone said above; its a tv, a dreamcast, some computer speakers and 2 controllers hacked into the control panel. i went step further and added a memory card slot to the panel, but its not needed... but i could easily switch any console into it with just a few wires being swapped and 2 controllers being hacked to DB25 connectors...

that isn't the best set of pics of the cab sadly. if you look at the main arcade page you get a better idea of how it looks now, 27" tv in place, glass and monitor bezel in place, etc....